GTM 46: "Rest at the End, Not in the Middle" with The CEO and Co-Founder of Outreach, Manny Medina
Manny Medina is the CEO and Co-Founder at Outeach. Prior to Outreach, Manny was employee number three on Amazon's AWS team, and led the Microsoft mobile division from launch to $50M in annual revenue. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
What You Will Learn:
- How to stay driven and motivated while building a multi-billion-dollar company.
- The importance of staying small in headcount as you begin to scale.
- Finding product-sales fit as fast as you can as a first-time founder.
- Manny shares his first sale that helped pivot the company from recruiting to sales.
- Why managing by forecast has changed in the last year.
- The best sales fundamentals to help founders succeed in today’s down market.
Highlights:
(2:42) Where Manny’s sustained motivation to win comes from.
(5:14) Manny’s take on AI’s impact on rev tech.
(9:35) Manny’s take on the competitive landscape with the emergence of AI.
(19:40) An impactful story that happened to Manny recently came across.
(27:24) How to maintain a strong company culture as you start to scale.
(33:35) Manny’s valuable advice to first-time founders.
(35:03) The story of Manny’s first memorable sale.
(37:08) 2 fundamental things that have changed in SaaS over the last couple of years.
(40:40) Best tip to founders.
Guest Speaker Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/medinism/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/medinism
Host Speaker Link:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxaltschuler/
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